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How about I Ran?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU
A muted I Ran.
The Trees are Down
They are cutting down the great plane-trees at the end of the gardens.
For days there has been the grate of the saw, the swish of the branches as they fall,
The crash of the trunks, the rustle of trodden leaves,
With the ‘Whoops’ and the ‘Whoas,’ the loud common talk, the loud common laughs of the men, above it all.
I remember one evening of a long past Spring
Turning in at a gate, getting out of a cart, and finding a large dead rat in the mud of the drive.
I remember thinking: alive or dead, a rat was a god-forsaken thing,
But at least, in May, that even a rat should be alive.
The week’s work here is as good as done. There is just one bough
On the roped bole, in the fine grey rain,
Green and high
And lonely against the sky.
(Down now!—)
And but for that,
If an old dead rat
Did once, for a moment, unmake the Spring, I might never have thought of him again.
It is not for a moment the Spring is unmade to-day;
These were great trees, it was in them from root to stem:
When the men with the ‘Whoops’ and the ‘Whoas’ have carted the whole of the whispering loveliness away
Half the Spring, for me, will have gone with them.
It is going now, and my heart has been struck with the hearts of the planes;
Half my life it has beat with these, in the sun, in the rains,
In the March wind, the May breeze,
In the great gales that came over to them across the roofs from the great seas.
There was only a quiet rain when they were dying;
They must have heard the sparrows flying,
And the small creeping creatures in the earth where they were lying—
But I, all day, I heard an angel crying:
‘Hurt not the trees.’
Charlotte Mew
1869-1928
Hadn’t heard that song in a couple of decades, Rocco. Thanks!
RIP Mick Ralphs… guitarist for Mott the Hoople and Bad Company.
I live on 38.5 acres on a mountain top in NW PA. The Amish are inching closer to surrounding me. One family moved nearby three years ago. Last week, two families split 102 acres real close to me. I enjoy dealing with the Amish, but in 5-10 years, the whitetail deer population will be real thin.
I’ve been trying to buy the next door neighbors out with no success. Hopefully they won’t sellout to the men in blue.
A friend has sent me a gift subscription to The New Yorker, and I am astounded at its level of obsessive TDS. I suspect it goes back to some history S.I. Newhouse and Trump had back in the 1980s. Newhouse owned Conde Nast, which publish Vanity Fair and New Yorker, and it is now owned by his son. Not that anyone needs a historical reason to be anti-Trump, but at TNY it's really over the top.
Earlier today there was some discussion about the movie Repo Man, as well as a Grok remake in a discussion with Althouse. However, another cult classic movie is getting a remaster and a sequel, that being This Is Spinal Tap, which will be returning to theaters for a three-day run from July 5th through 7th, remastered in 4K. They are making a sequel, but I'm not sure exactly when it will be coming out.
@tcrosse…They print what their readers will pay for.
Not Only has Trump stopped the uranium enrich
ment he has brought egg prices down to $4 a dozen in my neighborhood..Price was over.8.with.dems in control
“They are making a sequel, but I'm not sure exactly when it will be coming out.”
Better be wrapping that soon, Clyde. Those boys are getting old!
i don't think you could remake spinal tap, music is just too weird, re harry dean stanton, one recalls his part in aliens and repo man, which he name dropped in avengers,
New Yawker writers are miserable and ignorant, that might be a venn diagram, anyone who was saturated in Jane Mayers libels against Judge Kavanaugh, (second hand) her defense of Al Queda operatives, well they can't be well adjusted, now Lawrence Wright used to do some good entries, but he picked up Andromeda strain TDS as one can see in "End of October' as with many publications like the Times, apologia for the Khomeini emirate, which I noted earlier,
with David Sanger, now if you want any interesting insight into foreign policy, lee smith or david samuels at the Tablet,
now the President is not an idealogue as much as one would wish it, he wishes there was a decent regime in Tehran hence his blessing to the Nation, but there are evil people both here and over there 'who just want to watch the country burn' those that smelled the smoke of a charred store front and said 'mostly peaceful' you know who you are,
Rob Reiner, before he lost his ever loving mind, was good with Spinal Tap, with Princess Bride (although that was William Goldman's input mostly) even a few good men, where he gave the best lines to Nicolson, now well he's just the shell of a man,
Vanity Fair, the glossy moonbat flagship of the Conde Nast empire, a strain of hemorrhagic TDS fever, who pretended it hadn't kept Weinstein or Epstein afloat, under Graydon Carter,
They gonna need a bigger boat
Serene southern vacation town reports 2nd shark attack of summer amid heavy tourist traffic
I missed the discussion about Jaws, which I didn't see originally until years later, although I had the poster for the second film,
what distinguished Jsws, was not the shark itself, Bruce was mildly scare, but the dread from the woman innocently swimming you never see her again, of course Benchley a former Times White House correspondent, well certain courtesies apply, mined the 1915 outbreak as well as the Indianopolis incident, which the great Robert Shaw was gifted the words of Milius (no urban legend)
there was a time not that long ago, when one went to the movies for the spectacle of sound and music and light,
not the lugubrious message they assault us with,
that's what made Star Wars and Marvel and in a different way, Jams bond, but at a certain point, they decided just tear all that down, and inflict the neurosis of the writer, yes throw in Indiana Jones and even Dr Who,
the decades of success of all these franchises, doesn't mean anything to the writers and producers, even the likes of James Mangold who should know better,
so I watch older films, even removed from this time, when men and women were brave, even in spite of themselves, even some noirs, which can't really be done properly know because all they know is black despair, well AMC did a pretty good job with Sam Spade,
FullMoon said...
Not Only has Trump stopped the uranium enrich
ment he has brought egg prices down to $4 a dozen in my neighborhood..Price was over.8.with.dems in control
*************
and that's what's REALLY important, isn't it...the price of your fuckin' scrambled eggs...and not removing a threat of nuclear annihilation!
SNORT
That guy running for mayor of NY.
well - he has a past
Inga, promise you won’t disown your RIIs if they all start wearing MAGA hats.
Why the democrat party is a sewer. Reason 374843
by Gozer's jowels please spare Gotham any more pain
I don't like what progs have done to our great cities, 50 flavors of dystopia
Humperdink appears to dislike the Amish because they eat deer. Motorized highway vehicle and their drivers also kill deer so perhaps you should sell all your land to the Amish. BTW, there are a great many Amish farms in Wisconsin but the Cheese state isn't anywhere close to reducing the 1.8 million deer that live there despite an annual harvest in deer season of more than 325.000.
even after portland and seattle, and the former city of angels, they steer dangerously close to the flame,
effendi mandani should be no where close to city hall
but then again you have the grim reaper cuomo, like scylla and charybdis, yikes,
narciso said...
there was a time not that long ago, when one went to the movies for the spectacle of sound and music and light
Been to a number of recent movie releases. Leaning more toward streaming. Popcorn crunching. Candy wrappers. Cell phones. Up and down leaving and entering during the movies. Too may distractions. Get off my lawn!
It has probably been 9 years since my wife and I have watched TV news: it's a waste of time to listen to someone slowly read a shallow summary of what we can read on our own. But tonight, somewhat by accident, we did watch it, and Oh my God is TV news terrible! Forget about "bias"; that ship sailed long ago.
The stories were not even really news: more than 3/4 were tendentious pseudo-predictions, telling their viewers what WILL happen rather than what HAS happened. For example: "With the start of the summer travel season, how the crisis in Iran will affect your wallet," which was nothing but unmoored speculation. 'Experts say that we could see $4.50-5:00 per gallon gas prices if Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz.'
I now better understand why some of my elderly relatives (and some Althouse trolls) seem to live in a state of perpetual anxiety about absolutely everything (even though, if we're being honest, any material conditions that have noticeably changed since January have changed for the better).
The news media deserves every bit of the contempt people have for them (I saw people deliberately honking their horns and or shouting out just to mess up journalists' filming after the Karen Reed trial. The media deserves all of this abuse and more).
*By the way, on the last day of the trial we had THREE helicopters circling downtown Dedham for close to two hours so that three "news teams" could get exactly the same overhead footage of crowds outside the courthouse. These are the same people who claim to care so intensely about the environment...how many tons of CO2 did those helicopter flights emit to produce some some B-roll film in a 5-minute package?
So can people talk about Persia?
As soon as my local news leads off with national news, I turn it off.
You're on prior to the national news. And you follow the national news. It's already been covered. If you can't stick to LOCAL news, I have no reason to tune in.
I learned the local/national thing when I was a news director at an AM news station. My general manager (who could be a challenge to work for) drilled that into my head.
Unless I could find a local angle specifically connected to a national issue, stick to other local/regional news.
Now, there were several instances when our local stuff was national, but that was the exception.
I'm inching toward the conviction that the Dem party is floundering because the extreme left kicked out the Jews or caused them to leave with campus assaults and Free Palestine riots.
And the WNBA wonders why they have no viewers unless Caitlin Clark is playing?? It's because they all have this same opinions. Right Rebecca?? Can't say that's what make America Great...because THAT is RACIST??
I hope the league fails. Let them get REAL jobs. They don't deserve American fans.
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Saying “that’s what makes America great” is treated like a slur, causes silence and an apology. Wild.
https://x.com/WhitlockJason/status/1937185712010338412
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib2eiuDxdBM&list=RDIb2eiuDxdBM&start_radio=1
Holy Week, Malaga 2025 - I had intended attending this event, cameras in hand, but my illness prevented it. I even had the use of my uncles house (mansion) in Malaga.
Anyway, it is a telling demonstration of the, well, we can call the cultural distance between this country and the US.
Imagine the US Army doing this.
@ the gad, re: The Amish. Did you read my post? Have you read my previous posts on the men in blue. I really like the Amish. They have worked for me for 30 years. I pay them to raise my Angus for me. But one thing they don’t have on the farms and woodlands is deer. There is no mystery as to why.
You’re right, they eat deer. And now they have none.
narciso said...
“I don't think you could remake spinal tap, music is just too weird”
You would have to do rap instead of metal, and CB4 did that 3 decades ago. It was just ok.
Prof, I also quit TV News about a decade ago. The reasons are well known. TV uses all the tricks of network drama to keep you tuned in through commercials. That’s not some big secret, and the world is dramatic enough. However, I go through a lot of effort to minimize drama in my personal and professional life. It is not an essential vitamin I need or need a substitute, so I just do without.
I can’t imagine the trauma those, who watched TV news the past two weeks, have suffered through. Well I can, but I have no desire to imagine it, because none of it effected my life that way.
effinaright falsely claimed: "Not Only has Trump stopped the uranium enrichment he has brought egg prices down to $4 a dozen in my neighborhood. Price was over $8 with Dems in control."
In January of 2024, the day President Trump took office, the average national price of a dozen eggs was: $2.52.
Eggs are now $4.54/dozen. They are now 80% higher than when Trump took office.
The highest average price ever recorded by the Federal Reserve, which tracks egg prices, was in March of 2025, during Trump's second term, at $6.22/dozen.
Eggs have never been $8/dozen.
Winston Smith over here trying to re-write the Newspeak Dictionary.
Eggs have never been $8/dozen
…a bold claim….we were close to $9 at the local Publix at the height of the crisis…if they had any…be careful analyzing data- the fed numbers are national averages over a period, not spot prices…five seconds on the googles pulls a usga chart that shows an early 2025 spike over 8 bucks…
https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_3725.pdf
“In January of 2024, the day President Trump took office, the average national price of a dozen eggs was: $2.52.”
Shake your head, your brain is stuck. Trump “took office” in January of 2025.
Bad faith, Bad actor.
“ A friend has sent me a gift subscription to The New Yorker”
I thought you said he was a friend
Eggs hit $10 per dozen in Manhattan for a week or so. In Massachusetts the highest price I saw in Star Market (so not Whole Food$) was $6.98.
If the cost of eggs had only STAYED that high, my suburban chickens would have paid for themselves in 11 years.
(∴ suburban chickens are not a financial win. The only good reasons are that their eggs taste better than even the most expensive store-bought eggs, and they are highly amusing--if extremely stupid--pets)
It seems that most of the record high temperatures that are being reported this week are actually higher lows.
Huh?
Let’s say yesterday’s range of temperatures in your city were a high of 100 and a low of 80.
In many cases it wasn’t the 100 that broke the record but the 80. The low of 80 degrees was the highest low for that date on record.
Bet you didn’t hear that on your local news.
Source The Weather Channel
Thanks, Iman, for doing the check that revealed just what we suspected.
In January 2025, the average price for a dozen large Grade A eggs in the U.S. was $4.95. This price represents a record high, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Last week Aldi had eggs for 2.39.
Time to investigate the criminal Pelosi who outperformed all the Hedge funds with her Stock portfolio. This is criminal, and she and her perverted husband belong in prison. Anybody else would be.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/21/us-news/pelosi-added-millions-to-net-worth-last-year-report/
"In many cases it wasn’t the 100 that broke the record but the 80. The low of 80 degrees was the highest low for that date on record"
Thanks for the reminder, I need to call my friend in Phoenix today.Temperature.
👊 Marcus! The guy’s a piece of work…
FormerLawClerk said...
effinaright falsely claimed: "Not Only has Trump stopped the uranium enrichment he has brought egg prices down to $4 a dozen in my neighborhood. Price was over $8 with Dems in control."
Hilarious not only did flc mis attribute the original to effin a, , FLC ignored "in my neighborhood".
Just as amusing, effina took the original comment as being serious, rather than a dig at leftists who blamed Trump for high egg prices.
In January of 2024, the day President Trump took office, the average national price of a dozen eggs was: $2.52.
Eggs are now $4.54/dozen. They are now 80% higher than when Trump took office.
The highest average price ever recorded by the Federal Reserve, which tracks egg prices, was in March of 2025, during Trump's second term, at $6.22/dozen.
Eggs have never been $8/dozen.
I've seen eggs in rural Arizona selling for just shy of ten bucks, and I don't shop at Wholefoods.
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